ALAIA art piece

well , thanks to everybody here on sways , i have been having a blast making and riding different shapes and size ALAIA’S for awhile now. I have met a realy great artist and we have combined our skills " if you call what i have skills" and are trying to show some respect and love to  other people who might not otherwise realize ,who or how surfing really began. we have started to do some pieces to try and catch the feelings of how surfing should be and how we feel the ocean can make people feel alive and respect the ocean in a way that i can only hope that one day it will be treated . please let me know how you guys like the pieces?? any feedback would be kind!!


ooops heres s ome pics after resizing them!

and the other

daeH dnomaiD in the distance.

? homage to the spirit of the piece

a classic reproduced photo image

and a wood board not mimicking

the shape in the photo?

an intentional statement

or an accidental Typographical error?

much hard work must be praised

but as it is I seem to be hard pressed

to see it as other than A first draft

I would also like to see

the large flowers om the bottom

and the smaller progressing to the top

giving the picture plane more stable base...

...ambrose...

yeah. a little old a little new with the shape!! thanks for the feedback. this was our 1st try at it. we are making a couple more with different images and different layouts, we are about to do a vertical peice so the board can be a standup piece. good idea with the flowers going the other way. thanks !!

Ambrose,

I'm fairly ignorant of things Hawaiian.

Did the original Hawaiians have such heavy beards? And the loin-cloth looks a little hoaky too. Not to mention the hair cut – the fellow looks like an ancient Greek, perhaps Achilles on vacation? When did the ancients actually start weaving such tightly knitted fabrics? And out of what?

Also, I did manage to get to Hawaii in '69, but I don't remember a view of Diamond Head with that much water between me and it? So is this guy in a boat or hitching a ride on a SUP?

And though this is perhaps subjective, who would carry the board in such a manner, or even pose like that?

Wait there's more...

The image seems to be constrained by a conscious or unconscious desire to avoid drawing hands and/or feet?

But I guess in the end, Art is art...and  if it works for the viewer... that's all it need do.

My apologies if you're not the man to ask about things Hawaiian.

kc

 

... always strive for accuracy(?)

kc, this should clear things up…

 

http://www.balsasurfers.com/images/balsahistoryimage3.jpg

 

 

Thanks!

I does clear up the beard and the posture, and the absence of feet(?)

So it was a tracing or copy, and of a negative? (Added in edit. I think mirrored is more accurate than negative. That is the ‘direction’ or profile of Diamond head appears to be wrong in the artist’s rendition - it’s reflected?)

Forgive me, like I said, I am ignorant of things Hawaiian.

kc

(The image below is a reference to the URL you provided, let me know if you don’t want it referenced and I’ll remove it… it’s not a copy.)

the cloth hawaiians were in possession of was tapa

it was produced in all textures from corse to baby soft.

the garment was called a malo(sp?) .

photo taken from perhaps the halekulani site

if not closer to the rivermouth that is now the alawai ?

visiting in 1969 was a turning point in the lives of many.

as was visiting in 1869.

...when was this picture taken one might ask.

for now it is an often refrenced archive.

it is some of all we have to go on

for visual evidence of the period.

every pictures 1000 words as it may be

this particular photo has generated...

has easily generated hundreds upon

hundreds of thousands of words

I am glad you have finally had

the oppurtunity to see it .

your growth

continues...

...ambrose...

be ready, more growth is coming,

when you get real old you will never stop talking or,

you may just sit quietly,and not say a thing.

well,thank you guys for looking and giving me your thougths. we did not want to  completely do the excact photo, but more of a way of looking at it in a new way. the shape of the board is what i am actually making and riding,but only scaled down to 5`1", i dont surf on that  type of shape in the photo so i made what i ride. we also didnt want to try and completely rip off the image, so we tweak it a little. so you might look at it and then go "OOO" thats the photo of the guy .  it was our first board and we are in the middle of making a couple more,with hopefuuly new improvements. i`ll post some pictures when we are done. thanks